ME, we, in the same moment
I am Hindu, I am Buddhist
I am Jain, Jew and also Christian
I am Muslim, I am Sikh
I am the sun, the moon.
The silence and the music
I am a brown man in America
I am, who knows, could be black or white
I am all the colors of the rainbow.
I am the body, mind, and soul
I am the blind man from Hindustan
But I see all, the whole elephant
I am the knower and the known
I am the bee and the honeycomb
Me, we in the same moment, now
Love is everywhere, can’t you feel?
I am all who have been or will be
I want to be all, yes I want to be
Like one element, in one Humanity
Like a bright photon, in a sublime sunbeam
Discarding all that divides us.|
Searching for the one, the one in the many
I am Hindu, I am Buddhist
I am Jain, Jew and also Christian
I am Muslim, I am Sikh
I am the sun, the moon.
The silence and the music
Many paths lead to the one
Each real and unique
Like a many-faceted diamond
Brilliant interconnected twinkling
I am the air, floating through clouds
I am one, but desire to be all
I am you, me, and us all
Because there is only one
All is the same reality
Om shantih, shantih, shantih
Arihanta Namo Kara
Nam Myoho Renge Kyo
Hallelujah, Hallejuah
Allahu Akbar, Akal Murat Sat Nam
Me, we our soul supreme
Me, we our soul supreme
Om, Amen, Amin
Om, Amen, Amin
I am Hindu, I am Buddhist
I am Jain, Jew and also Christian
I am Muslim, I am Sikh
I am the sun, the moon.
The silence and the music
I dance in time like ocean tides
I travel in boundless space
Where colors never fade
Where there’s warming sun and cooling shade
Where it’s all the same
Where it’s all the same
I walk in the greatest jungles
I swim in the deep blue oceans
I fly in skies filled with the spectrum of blue
And realize I am you, me, and us all
I am Hindu, I am Buddhist
I am Jain, Jew and also Christian
I am Muslim, I am Sikh
I am the sun, the moon,
The silence and the music
Om shantih, shantih, shantih
Arihanta Namo Kara
Nam Myoho Renge Kyo
Hallelujah, Hallelujah
Allahu Akbar, Akal Murat Sat Nam
Me, we, OUR soul supreme
Me, we, OUR soul supreme
Om Amen Amin
Om Amen Amin
Navin Doshi
Navin Doshi, born in India in 1936, and his wife Pratima Doshi live in Los Angeles, where they have endowed the Doshi Chair for Indian History at the University of California at Los Angeles. Aerospace engineer, author, businessman, and philanthropist, Doshi has also supported other universities in the U.S. and in India. One of his several books is Light with No Shadow: My Life Bridging Two Cultures (2016).
According to Doshi, the poem published here was triggered in part by his memory of words from Gandhi he’d heard in Attenborough’s movie of the 1980s: “I am a Hindu, a Muslim, a Christian…” The words are uttered as Gandhi is confronted by agitated Hindu leaders. “The other input”, says Doshi, was from “the world’s shortest poem,” which was what Muhammad Ali had come up with in Harvard in 1975: “Me, We.”